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Manage policies with YAML

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This section describes how to use YAML to manage existing policies in the following ways:

  • Change which policy manages a workload

  • Stop optimization of a workload

There is also a table of common kubectl commands.

Change which policy manages a workload

To change the policy that manages a workload, edit the policy selectors on the current and the desired policy.

Tip

To avoid an unmanaged gap, add the workload to the new policy before removing it from the old policy.

Stop optimization of a workload

To stop optimizing a workload, remove the workload from policy selection, using the relevant solution:

  • Remove it from the policy’s  appList selector.

  • Update the policy label selector so it no longer matches the workload.

  • Remove the policy annotation from the workload.

After removing, the workload may still be managed if it matches a different policy.

Common kubectl commands

Replace the values inside [ ] with your values.

CRDs

  • Pod rightsizing: policies.rightsizing.kompass.zesty.co

  • Replica optimization: policies.horizontalscaling.kompass.zesty.co

Annotations

  • Pod rightsizing: rightsizing.kompass.zesty.co/policy: <any rightsizing policy>

  • Replica optimization: horizontalscaling.kompass.zesty.co/policy: <any rightsizing policy>

To do this

Use this command

List policies

kubectl get [policy-crd]

View a policy manifest

kubectl get [policy-crd] [policy-name] -o yaml

Create or update a policy

kubectl apply -f [policy-file].yaml

Add or update the workload policy annotation

kubectl annotate [workload-kind]/[workload-name] -n [namespace] [policy-annotation-key]=[policy-name] --overwrite

Remove the workload policy annotation

kubectl annotate [workload-kind]/[workload-name] -n [namespace] [policy-annotation-key]-

Delete a custom policy

kubectl delete [policy-crd] [policy-name]

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